A Pound of Butter

By Gordon Planedin

There are obviously excuses and exceptions, unavoidable accidents, honest mistakes, etc. but there has to be a price to pay.

Society should accept the responsibility to see that the criminals you scam to rob the people of their savings thereby destroying their retirement plan the criminals should not only be punished but any assets they may have should be used to cover the victims' losses. Otherwise, society should provide the necessary funds to accomplish this.

If you kill someone because you were driving like a fool, drunk or otherwise, this is not an honest mistake. No matter how you try to explain it to the victim's family. If you sell drugs to someone in order to provide yourself with a good lifestyle and the drug addicts destroy their lives, this is not an honest mistake, and so on and so forth.

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